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Details
- Other Title
- Large vase
- Alternative title
- Hakudei hanasashi
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Date
- circa 1950-1960
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware
- Dimensions
- 63.5 x 22.5 cm diam.
- Signature & date
Signed on foot, incised "Kimey". Not dated.
Signed back of lid [associated NWA box], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Kimei saku [made by Kimei]" [and artist's seal]. Not dated.- Credit
- Gift of Norman Sparnon 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 405.1988
- Copyright
- © Estate of Yasuhara Kimei
- Artist information
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Yasuhara Kimei
Works in the collection
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About
Yasuhara Kimei based his activities in the government-sponsored annual exhibition. Characterised by their abstract and geometric designs, Yasuhara’s works from the 1930s were noticed by Teshigahara Sofu, the founder of the abstract Sogetsu School of Ikebana (Teshigahara was searching for potters who could make vases suitable for his free-style flower arrangements).
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.270.
Yasuhara Kimei was a seminal figure in the development of the avant-garde ceramic movement in post-war Japan. He exhibited in the important Nitten exhibitions, and at other venues.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Norman Sparnon Retrospective, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 23 Jun 1994–10 Jul 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 270 (colour illus.).
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Norman Sparnon, Japanese Flower Arrangements, Tokyo, 1960, 144 [illus.].
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